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April 2017

April 16, 2017

We Had Hoped

The Apostle Paul wrote that "now abide faith, hope, and love . . ." Easter...

April 09, 2017

To Die For

What is bothering me incessantly is the question of what Christianity really is, or indeed...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Quiet Ignorance

Over the past several years, I have frequently returned to a question that a friend...

March 15, 2017

It Must Be A Miracle

My youngest son was always the inquisitive sort, the kind of kid who, from the...

March 03, 2017

Getting Ready for the Apocalypse

A colleague and friend from the English department contacted me a few months ago and...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

The Time of the Angels

Is there any true transcendence, or is this idea always a consoling dream projected by...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

What’s Next?

As a Christmas present to each other, Jeanne and I purchased our first HD television...

December 21, 2016

How Can This Be?

I have a colleague and friend with whom I share a lot in common. Eric...

December 16, 2016

I Will Bring You Home

Baptist preacher's kids get to do some very odd things. I memorized large portions of...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Something Rather Than Nothing

One of the most reliable ways to deaden a lively conversation in class is to...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

A Gnawing Suspicion

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions,...

July 18, 2016

Random Midsummer Thoughts

After the most beautiful Rhode Island June--sunny and low eighties day after day--in my twenty-two...

June 2016

June 03, 2016

A REAL Philosopher

Somebody put a drop of his blood under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

To the Graduating Seniors

For those who read this blog regularly, it will come as no surprise that I...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Something Under Construction

We never see the world exactly as it is because we are how the world...

April 11, 2016

Forty-Seven Books

Last June as my sabbatical officially began, I decided to keep a running list of...

April 01, 2016

Jesus, Moe, and Curly

IT'S APRIL FOOL'S DAY--A PERFECT TIME FOR SOME IRREVERENCE! One of my unexpected reading delights...

March 2016

March 27, 2016

The Easter Mouse

A couple of years ago, just in time for the Christmas holiday season, a new book...

March 25, 2016

A Common Criminal

During the Providence Friars’ recent exciting basketball season, Jeanne and I frequently watched a replay of...

March 02, 2016

The Ghosts of Jesus Past

My birthday is in four days (the big 6-0), so I'm doing a bit of...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Stranger in a Strange Land

I am not Catholic. I have been firmly ensconced in Catholic higher education for close...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Give Us Barabbas

An annual musical fixture of my Baptist upbringing was the Easter Cantata. Each year on...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

The Best and the Worst: A Wish for the New Year

Love does not say “I ought to love”—it loves. Pity does not say “It is...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

Where is the Gardener?

Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the...

September 02, 2015

The Return of Republican Jesus

Numerous polls report that as of today, Donald Trump is the preferred candidate of conservative...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Pope Ivan–Remembering a Mennonite Catholic

Monday morning--early. The 30th Street Amtrak station in Philadelphia is not the sort of place...

July 10, 2015

How to Educate a Story-Telling Animal

Man is in his actions and practices, as well as in his fictions, essentially a...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

The Dachshund and the Lion

Those who know me well or read this blog once in a while know that...

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Loving Your Life

I recently finished re-reading Stephanie Saldana’s 2010 book The Bread of Angels, a book that...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

The Crucifix Train

A bit over a year after moving into our beautiful new humanities building, there is...

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